Raymond Soneira at DisplayMate Technologies claims that while the tablet's LCD panel has much to offer, the calibration of display parameters - usually performed through firmware - is "way off", which makes images appear washed out.

"They looked like over exposed photographs with missing highlights, reduced image contrast, and weak colours," said Soneira in a DisplayMate blog post.

Apparently, there is a 25 per cent compression of bright image content – considered a substantial amount for a tablet such as the Nexus 7.

While some of the more inexpensive display manufacturers utilise compression intentionally – to artificially increase a display's brightness – Soneira reckons Google has just been incompetent here and has "messed up a really nice display".

The issue supposedly affects all displayed images, but is most prevalent on photographs and video. Soneira does suggest a software update might fix the problem, though.

You can read our own views on the Google Nexus 7 tablet here on Reg Hardware. We were rather fond of it. ®